cineál

See also: cineal

Irish

Alternative forms

  • cinéal, cineul (archaic)

Etymology

From Old Irish cenél (“race, kindred, kind, type”) (compare Scottish Gaelic cineal, Welsh cenedl (“race, nation”)), from Proto-Celtic *kenetlom (“family”).[1]

Pronunciation

Noun

cineál m (genitive singular cineáil, nominative plural cineálacha)

  1. sort, kind, type
    Synonyms: saghas, sórt, comhchineál
  2. sex, gender
    Synonyms: gnéas, inscne
  3. (biology) variety
  4. (agriculture) variety, strain
    Synonyms: pór, tréithchineál
  5. nature (of materials)
    Synonym: nádúr
  6. form
    Synonym: foirm

Declension

Declension of cineál (first declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative cineál cineálacha
vocative a chineáil a chineálacha
genitive cineáil cineálacha
dative cineál cineálacha
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an cineál na cineálacha
genitive an chineáil na gcineálacha
dative leis an gcineál
don chineál 		leis na cineálacha

Derived terms

Adverb

cineál

  1. kind of, sort of

Quotations

  • 1988, Mícheál Ó Siadhail, Lesson 7, in Learning Irish (overall work in English), Yale University Press, →ISBN, page 34:
    Tá an cat cineál dall anois ach tá sé glic go leor mar sin féin.
    The cat is kind of blind now, but he’s clever enough all the same.

Synonyms

Mutation

Mutated forms of cineál
radical lenition eclipsis
cineál chineál gcineál

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

  1. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “cenél”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Phonetics of an Irish Dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 153, page 78
  3. ^ Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart [The Aran Dialect] (in German), Zweiter Band: Wörterbuch [Second volume: Dictionary], Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 173
  4. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 99, page 39

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